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WEDNESDAY 14TH DECEMBER 2011
PARTNERS
STAR Trek’s William Shatner and Star Wars’ Carrie Fisher recently
engaged in an online stars war by posting YouTube videos arguing over
which franchise was superior. Now, actor George Takei has entered the
fray in response to a plea by American film critic Roger Ebert for him to
“broker a peace settlement”.
Takei, who played Sulu in the original Star Trek and Lok Durd on the
Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series, says both sides should unite
against a mutual threat – the Twilight series. “It is really, really bad,” he
says, adding that the only message which rings through loud and clear
is: “Does my boyfriend like me?”
May the force
be with you
NEIL WALKER/CRIKEY
STEPHEN DAVENPORT
BOOK
WILL the real Superman please jut forward his jaw? The Man of Steel superhero, who is
73, has undergone plenty of cartoon facelifts, as befits a man of his years. The single curl
on his forehead has remained the same but almost everything else about his face has
been transformed since the first image created by artist Joe Shuster in the 1930s. Glen
Weldon, from NPR, has traced the changes.
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Certainly, that’s the impression given by Lioness: Hidden Treasures,
a ragtag collection of cover versions, alternate takes and previously
unreleased songs polished up and hustled together to cash in on the
lucrative Christmas market.
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Everyone has four great-grandfathers
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province’s outstanding pastoralist in
the middle of the 19th century. Both
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Bedfordshire and Waite from Scotland -
and had much in common, including a
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